Al-Bihani v. Obama
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
619 F.3d 1 (2010)
Relevant factsFree
Al-Bihani (defendant), a Yemeni citizen who cooked and carried a weapon for a Taliban-allied brigade fighting the Northern Alliance, surrendered and was transferred to U.S. custody and detained at Guantanamo under the AUMF; his habeas petition was denied using relaxed evidentiary procedures, including admission of hearsay, and he appealed both his classification as an enemy combatant and the adequacy of his habeas process.
IssueFree
Whether the President may lawfully detain a person subject to military commission authority and afford that person lesser habeas corpus review procedures than those used in ordinary civil courts.
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